Corporations are purchasing large tracts of land on the Albemarle-Pamlico Peninsula for the purpose of building superfarms. First Colony Farms, Inc., established by Malcolm McLean, is the largest, with 370,000 acres. Pugh assesses the major effects that construction of such farms would have on the sensitive coastal environment.

Corporations are purchasing large tracts of land on the Albemarle-Pamlico Peninsula for the purpose of building superfarms in counties including Dare, Tyrrell, Washington, Hyde, and Beaufort. Taylor examines how these farms are changing the landscape of eastern North Carolina and how it might affect the state's wildlife and marine ecology.